This year’s International Women’s Day, UGHE community shares powerful messages on how we can collectively #BreakTheBias. Breaking The Bias Against Women and Girls to Achieve Gender Equity: UGHE Celebrates International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day offers an important opportunity for all of us in our different capacities to raise awareness and stand together to promote gender equality. From highlighting women’s achievements to combating gender stereotypes and bias, reminding and educating ourselves and others, particularly the younger generation, about gender equality is one of the most fundamental changes […]
UGHE Announces the Passing of Prof. Paul Farmer
UGHE Announces New Board Members
The University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) is proud to announce that Lesley King has been chosen to become the next chair of the board of UGHE. Lesley King has been a board member of UGHE and an integral part of our community since its inception. In addition, she has served as a board member […]
UGHE’s state – of – the – art Campus in rural Rwanda, Butaro, Burera District. UNESCO Highlights UGHE as Model for Global Health Education
The United Nations’ education agency has highlighted the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) as a model for equitable global health education in a new report. The university, based in rural Butaro, Rwanda, is described as a “high-quality health sciences institution” helping shift the center of gravity from where it has traditionally been, within higher-income […]
UGHE’s School of Medicine Hosted the First Cohort of Medical Students’ White Coat Ceremony
On December 8th, 2021, the first White Coat Ceremony was held, bringing together distinguished leading global health experts, UGHE supporters and friends, leadership, faculty, staff, and students to celebrate UGHE’s first cohort of medical students (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery/Master of Science in Global Health Delivery (MBBS/MGHD)) as they transitioned from pre-clinical to clinical […]
Marie Consolatrice Sage Ishimwe’s role is important to contribute to the establishment of well-informed solutions needed to address the current and future global health disparities. Marie Consolatrice Sage Ishimwe: UGHE Research Faculty on Addressing Global Health Disparities Through Research
Marie Consolatrice Sage Ishimwe is a medical doctor with a Master of Public Health, and she recently completed a 12-month clinical research fellowship at the National Institute of Health in the United States, where her main project focused on determining the main etiology of abnormal glucose tolerance (a term combining prediabetes and diabetes) in African […]
Sabrina Gwiza, UGHE’s MBBS/MGHD’26 Student aspires to work in psychiatry to help close the gap in healthcare delivery in Rwanda and beyond. Universal Right to Quality Healthcare: Sabrina Gwiza, MBBS/MGHD’26 Student, Discusses Her Perceptions
Sabrina Gwiza is one of UGHE’s students in the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery/ Master of Science in Global Health Delivery (MBBS/MGHD) class of 2026. Sabrina’s passion for providing health care to the most vulnerable stems from an experience she had when she was a child: her aunt’s mental health illness, which she was […]
Left to right: Amb. Robert Masozera, Director General, Rwanda Cultural Heritage Academy, Rogers Muragije, UGHE’s Deputy Vice Chancellor, Administrative and Financial Affairs and Injonge Karangwa, Director, Arts and Culture in Global Health Public Engagement at UGHE UGHE Launches its Partnership with the Rwanda Cultural Heritage Academy – Inteko y’Umuco
On Tuesday, 12th October 2021, the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE), a global health sciences institution based in Rwanda through its Department of Arts and Culture in Global Health Public Engagement’s Hamwe Festival, launched its partnership with Rwanda Cultural Heritage Academy (RCHA) – Inteko y’Umuco. The launch event took place at Kandt House Museum […]
Launch of the Africa Advisory Board to Support the University of Global Health Equity Mission
‘I’ve also learned what it is to collaborate with others, since no man is an island, we all need others to collaborate with us if we are to effect change in places where we have seen injustices’ -Madalitso Mkata, MGHD’21 Student Profile: Madalitso Mkata Discusses her Commitment to Health Equity, Advocating more about SRHR for Young Women and Girls, and her MGHD Learnings
Madalitso Mkata, from Malawi, is one of twenty-three students who will receive their Master of Science in Global Health Delivery (MGHD) from UGHE at the virtual Commencement on Sunday, August 22nd 2021. The class of 2021 is the sixth cohort produced by the UGHE’s MGHD program, and the first to have students pursuing the two […]
